My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.